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...With his shock of blond hair, deep tan and rakish English charm, billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson likes to portray himself as maverick of the business world. And, on Monday, he made a typically bold gesture, announcing that he would lead an investment consortium to rescue the ailing U.K. mortgage lender Northern Rock. In an open letter to Northern Rock customers entitled "A Fresh Start," he pledged to save the bank and declared that the company would soon be known as Virgin Money...
...proposal two years ago to expand the definition of the “use” of controlled technology and to base licensing decisions on place of birth rather than country of citizenship drew strong opposition from Harvard and other research universities. “It sent shock waves across lots of sectors, including the higher education sector,” said Kevin Casey, the University’s senior director for federal and state relations. “We thought that what the proposed regulation was driving towards would really change the academic climate.” In response...
...right to go public with it. This irony is apparently lost on the “Speak Out” movement.What is most troubling is that this pro-choice movement of speaking out is not a push for women’s rights, but a push for sensationalism and shock-value. It stems, perhaps, from this curious impulse among champions of social liberalism to do everything in their power to make social conservatives uncomfortable. In the case of abortion, it is not enough that the procedure is legal—being amenable to discussion of abortion in every societal arena...
...exception is Darfur, which still retains the power to shock and move. But the intensity of the crime marks it as the exception. Only genocides move...
...government or even throw out the government and call for new elections. Or he may not. In practice he almost never does. The last and only time he did was in 1975, when the G-G, Sir John Kerr, fired the Labor government led by Gough Whitlam. This caused shock and resentment. Millions of Australians felt that Whitlam, their hero, the great reformer of government policy in the domains of race, immigration, foreign policy and the arts, had been stolen from them. There are still plenty of people around who regard this as not far from a coup d'etat...